Nag, aka Akkineni Nagarjuna: the sexist 50 year old movie star of the South India. In his career, he acted in many blockbusters like Shiva, Geetanjali, Manmadhudu and more. However, his career has not been up to mark lately. His last five movies, Boss, Don, Krishnarjuna, King, Kedi, despite his charm, failed at the box office. Another surprising fact being that with a low level movie of his career like King, he officially asked his fans and the film industry to change his title from YuvaSamrat to King. This article will discuss why his last five movies might have failed, if it was right for him to change his title, and what his possible future might be in the Telugu film industry.
The 5 Duds:
Reason why Boss failed is due to lack of a tight screenplay. Also, the meaningless laughs of Nag in the movie are irritating. According to the main plot of the movie, most of it should be concentrating on how Nayantara’s character finds a loving husband; with Nag playing the role of the loving husband, and him being a top actor, it looks like the story is degraded by giving him the same importance as Nayantara. Thus, the story with Shirya was added to the movie, which is completely unnecessary. If you recall, you might have thought the movie ended right before Shirya enters the movie.
Moving on, the movie Don is an interesting concept, but the story was flawed a bit. First of all, the romance factor in the movie is pointless and lengthy. The main plot is about a don ruling Hyderabad who helps the residents. It is incomprehensible where the love story comes in. Also, the Don doesn’t react until his good friend and his love are kidnapped? Moreover, Lawrence tried to steal the show with his character and acting. Such negative factors made the movie as less interesting as possible. On the other hand, the scenes involving the interaction between the dons were directed in a splendidly elegant manner.
Next three movies of Nag start with the letter K. It is interesting how these movie names “degraded” one by one. First one being godly, Krishnarjuna, second being royalty, King, and third one being bandit, Kedi. In addition, watching these movie are the commoners (us), which concludes all the ‘roles’ in life.
Krishnarjuna is not really a Nagarjuna movie, but he played one the main characters, so it counts. A reason this movie might not have done well at the box office is because of the story itself. The story of an innocent child/man and God coming to his aid was too old of a story. If the movie was directed towards a different genre, for instance comedy like Bruce Almighty, it might have worked.
King is an interesting mixture of movies. It was declared a hit, something the movie doesn’t really deserve. This might be the lowest of Srinu Vaitla’s recent career. I have never expected such a low level movie from a director who directed hit movies like Dhee, Dubai Seenu and Ready. It is a disappointment how he just mixed up Chandramukhi, Simhadri with his own story.
Finally, Kedi is a mix of a many movies as well. Nag telling his past story to the cop and the cop giving Nag another chance are copied from Slumdog Millionaire. The concept of Nag stealing money from others is nothing new; they should have been more interesting. Also, attaching a son role to the heroine’s role is hard to digest factor. The movie is just not up to mark, especially after Nag declaring himself the King.
The “King”
Which brings us to if it was right for him to change his title. Changing an actors’ title is a complete new thing for us. Even though Nag opened the door to such concept, let’s hope no one follows him, especially the way he did. Nag’s career was at the lowest for three years when he came out with an average movie, King, and with a title change, which was followed by a flop again.
King’s Future?
At the rate of failures for Nag, it is crucial for him to come up with a decent entertainer. His looks have been helping him for the last four years, which might not in the future. It is better for him to choose family entertainers, such as Santosham, Manmadhudu, instead of mass entertainers like Don and Kedi. Let’s hope he doesn’t leave the industry with a dull note like Chiranjeevi, who left after 5 consecutive flops.
Gud Luck to Nagarjuna and may his future movies shake the box office.
Note: This article contains no factual information, but just my opinions. Also, this article is no way meant to belittle Nagarjuna or anyone.
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Except KING, all were turned as DISASTERS.
King was watchable, the rest weren't. Don was one of the worst movies I have seen in the recent past. I think he changed his title to King because he wanted Naga Chaitanya to take the title of Yuva Samrat.
His last five movies, Boss, Don, Krishnarjuna, King, Kedi, despite his charm, failed at the box office///
need justification.. do u know any thing bout box Office ??? how can u tell Don, King failed @ box office..??
krishnarjuna lo Nag guwst appearence...??dhaanini ela consider chestharu??